Director

Curriculum vitae: Giovanni Battista Migliori

Nationality: Italian

Current Position:

Director, World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Tradate, Italy (representing the WHO, Geneva, Switzerland);
WHO and ECDC Liaison Officer, European Respiratory Society (ERS);
Scientific Advisor, PATH, Catalyst for Global Heath, Washington DC, USA;
WP Leader, FP7 EU funded TB PAN-NET Project;
Associate Editor, European Respiratory Journal and International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

Language(s) and fluency in each: English, Fluent; French, Fluent; Italian, Fluent.

Professional qualifications:

Doctor of Medicine specialized in Respiratory Medicine and Medical Statistics (1989 and 1994)
Graduated "Summa cum Laude" (experimental thesis on the "Activity of a new Macrolide on respiratory pathogens"), 1985;

Postgraduate course on Tropical Medicine (CUAMM, 1986-87);
Auditor Quality System UNI EN ISO 9002 (Certificate N°256, 13.4.1999);
Professor, University of Pavia, Italy (Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology section, Applied Heath Sciences Department);
Visiting Professor, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.

Relevant working experience (see Medline for details):

Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tuberculosis and AIDS Control Programs, Uganda. Responsible for the framework of the Health Cooperation Project of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tuberculosis and AIDS Control Programmes in Arua District, West Nile, Northern Uganda. The programme implemented the TB control at regional level, and coordinated the recording and reporting system for epidemiological and health planning purposes as a part of the new Ugandan National Health Information System, performing operational research on these topics. (1987 - 1989);

Chest Physician Consultant, Department of Pneumonology, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Italy. In charge of the Cell Biology Laboratory and of the Clinical Trials within the framework of GCP (1989 - 2007);

Consultant, WHO and GFATM (Global Fund against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria). In charge of TB control activities in Russia, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Turkey, Burkina and Mozambique. Involved in TB Control in prisons in Ivanovo Oblast and Romania. In charge of health economic studies in Russia and Estonia. Responsible of TB control activities and GFATM preparation and review in > 20 countries in all continents (1995 – present);

Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (October 2000 – present; re-designation obtained in December 2004 and 2008);

Head, Clinical Epidemiology Service of Respiratory Disease, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Care & Research Institute, Tradate, Italy (2003 – present);

Member, National Committee for TB Control, Ministry of Health, Italy (2001 - present);

Chairman, Tuberculosis Study Group, AIPO (Italian Society of Hospital Pneumonologists) (2001 – 2005);

Secretary General, IUATLD (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease) Europe Region (1999-2007);
President, (2008 – 2009) and Past President (2010-2011), IUATLD Europe Region;

Rotating member, TRP (Technical Review Panel, GFATM), GFATM (Global Fund Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) and Consultant (2005- present);

Member, Scientific Committee of EDCTP (European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership) (2005-2006);

Secretary, TBNET (Tuberculosis Network for European clinical trials) (2006-2011);

Member, KNCV/WHO/IUATLD Wolfheze Scientific Committee (Workshops on TB control in low prevalence countries);

Details of recent professional development experience:

Teaching activities

1987-1989: Lecturer on epidemiology of infectious diseases at the Arua Nursery and Midwifery school.
Since 1995: Professor at the School of Specialization in Medical Statistics, University of Pavia.
Since 1995: Lecturer of the IUATLD Post-Graduate Courses
Since 1998: Lecturer at the WHO Course for TB managers, Warsaw (Poland)
Since 1999: Lecturer of the European School of Respiratory Medicine (ERS, European Respiratory Society)
1999-2000: Lecturer at the School of Rehabilitation Therapists, University of Insubria, Varese
Since 2001: Course Director, WHO Training Course for TB and TB/HIV Consultants /managers, PPM Consultants/managers; GFATM Consultants/managers; Laboratory Consultants/managers; Infection Control Consultants, Sondalo (Italy); Moscow (Russian Federation), Kiyv (Ukraine), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Cairo (Egypt), Maputo (Mozambique), Geneva (Switzerland), Abuja (Nigeria), Cancun (Mexico), Dubrovnik (Croatia).

Research areas

TB and respiratory infections diagnosis and treatment with special focus on MDR-TB;
Epidemiology and control of TB, respiratory infections and respiratory non communicable diseases;
Economic analyses applied to respiratory diseases;
Asthma and COPD with special focus on pulmonary rehabilitation and induced sputum.

Publications

Author of the main guidelines on TB control resulting from the IUATLD/WHO Worlfheze workshops (2001-2011);
Author of more than 250 scientific publications (original articles, reports, communications, editorials and book chapters, the main part of them published in Index Medicus/Science Citation Index indexed journals) on TB and pulmonary diseases;

Personal H-Index: 31

Personal Impact Factor 2011: 197.23

2011 Publications: 36 (click here)

Editorial activities

Reviewer and section editor of international journals (NEJM, Lancet, Lancet ID, JAMA, BMJ, AJRCCM, Archives Int Med, Tuberc Lung Dis, Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, Eur J Epidemiol, Respiration, Respiratory Research, Emerging Infectious Diseases, FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, Clinical Respiratory J, Plos One, Monaldi Arch Chest Dis, J Infect Dis, BMC Public Health, BMC Infect Dis, Scand J Infect Dis;

Associate Editor, Eur Respir J, BMC Infect Dis; Int J Tuberc Lung Dis Respirology and Editor Eur Respir J TB series.

Activities & responsibilities within ERS

Group 10.2 Chair (2005-2008);
Assembly 10 (Respiratory Infection) Head and member Executive and Scientific Committee (2008-2011);
Assembly 10, LRPC Chair (2011-2014);
WHO and ECDC ERS Liaison Officer (2011);
Coordinator of the ERS-ECDC ESTC (EU Standards for TB Care) Project (2010-2011)
Author ERS TB guidelines (1999)
Author TB Chapter, ERS Handbook, Hermes project (2010-2011)
Member of the ERJ Editorial Board (2007-present)

WHO Collaborating Centre for TB, Italy